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Mobile Barcode Tool

This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site.

rm -f ../* – oops – how to recover?

Whoops! You just ran:
rm -rf ../*
instead of:
rm -rf ./*
Now what???? Remember the THREE Bs?**
For Linux (Guis), Windows (and perhaps Mac) users when you delete a file it is essentially ‘moved’ to the trash can.  The file is not actually removed until you empty the trash. However, if you delete a file from the command line [...]

Visits from Murphy – Seagate FreeAgent disk crash…

I previously posted about our friend Murphy – he has returned…   Stuff happens – all the time.
Seems like it was just yesterday that I purchased an external 1TB Seagate FreeAgent USB disk drive (I actually purchased the drive in February of 2009 – so I am seeing failure in ~10 months with modest use – [...]

Visits from Murphy – recovering data from a failing hard disk

I’m a fan of Adobe software (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.)  I am not a fan of poorly performing software especially when it dictates what will occur on my system instead of me directing things…   In this case, what started out as a rant about software became a full-fledged visit from Murphy – a hard drive failure…  [...]